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call for no special remarks aside from what has been stated in my previous reports. I would, however, repeat that there are yet many women and children not able and strong enough to trust themselves to the turbulent tide, and doubtful fortunes of usual emigration, who would be greatly benefitted by being sent to the "Howard Industrial School" of Cambridge Port near Boston; thence to be sent to comfortable northern homes.

There is here, and in York Co. and throughout the sub district, a residue of absolutely helpless people of color, destitute, not by their own fault, but through slavery, for whom, in their last days, another home than the county poor houses should be provided. Aside from those whose friends would prefer to care for them there are but few